The full name of Sport's most promising young player is "Cirohenrique Alves Ferreira E Silva." In Brazil, however, it is common for players to adopt a single short name, so he is known to all simply as "Ciro."Ciro is a homegrown Sport product; he was called up from the B team near the end of the 2008 Serie A campaign. Ciro scored four goals in nine appearances - an impressive pace for any player but particularly so for a 19 year old midseason callup.
Brazillian club soccer being what it is, it's probable that Ciro will be purchased by a European club if he indeed makes the leap and becomes a world-class forward, but in the meantime Sport fans can comfort themselves that he is under contract with the club until 2013.
In his first cup match Ciro notched a goal and an assist - doubly impressive given that there isn't another forward on the team who has any real flair for putting the ball into the back of the net.
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